Word: curds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...soldiers are volunteers serving two years. They receive only about $3 to $4 a month in spending money. The division, in accordance with the words of Chairman Mao, produces its own food. We watch P.L.A. men working to process soy beans into soy sauce, bean paste, vinegar and bean curd. The division also grows its own rice and raises 900-odd pigs. Everything fits into its objective of achieving self-reliance and, as Vice Commander Keng puts it, "lightening the burden of the locality." There is a very basic quality about the whole operation. The necessities of life with...
...kicked out just to prove that the Red slogan "the American imperialist is a paper tiger and bean-curd tiger" is true...
...kind of culture shock and a feeling of helplessness also afflicts some young middle-class doctors when they do get the opportunity to serve the poor. John Curd, 26, decided against community medicine after a two-month stint at Boston City Hospital. "To work there would just drive me nuts," he says. "The patient population depressed me to the point that I thought the earth was about to blow up and turn into fire. It really bothers me to take care of people who are just totally degenerate about their lives." Says Paul Simpson, 29, a resident at Massachusetts General...
...ALLEN CURD...
When Pope jibed at an ailing enemy as "Sporus, that mere White curd of ass's milk," he was writing with a brutal bitterness that sprang from his own wretched health. He was a gay and high-spirited youth to his twelfth year, when he contracted Pott's Disease (tuberculosis of the spine) from infected milk. The affliction left him partly crippled and progressively deformed. It also arrested his growth; Pope never exceeded 4 ft. 6 in. (a "little Aesopic sort of an animal," a "venomous . . . hunchbacked toad," in the words of his tough contemporaries...